JSSISI: 1855 to 1856, Vol. I, Journal of the Dublin Statistical Societyhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/89982015-03-31T22:04:33Z2015-03-31T22:04:33ZVol.I Session I: Preminary pages & list of membersDublin Statistical Societyhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/92982010-06-03T15:55:51Z1849-01-01T00:00:00ZVol.I Session I: Preminary pages & list of members
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1849-01-01T00:00:00ZA deduction from the statistics of crime for the last twelve yearsWalsh, Richard Husseyhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/91062010-06-03T15:55:51Z1856-01-01T00:00:00ZA deduction from the statistics of crime for the last twelve years
Walsh, Richard Hussey
Both in ancient and modern times it has been generally believed
that want is unfavorable to virtue, and privation (malesuada fames)
an incentive to crime. But a counter-theory is now growing up,
and becoming, in fact, "rather a favourite one with chaplains,
magistrates, and police officials. "According to this, the belief that
want is the parent of crime must be numbered among popular
fallacies; and statistics are relied on to prove that prosperous years
are more prolific in vice than years of distress. The Rev. Mr. John
Clay, for example, chaplain of Preston gaol, countenances this view
in his "Reports on Crime and its Causes" and Mr. Waddington,
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department, cites, with
apparent concurrence, an opinion to the same effect, in his
evidence before last session's Parliamentary Committee on Transportation.
The evidence upon which this doctrine is based is of a most inconclusive
and unsatisfactory nature. The statistics employed relate
to very limited districts, and hence it is hardly safe or fair to apply
to the entire population of the country the inference they seem to
lead to.
Read before the Statistical Section of the British Association, Cheltenham,
August 11th, 1856
1856-01-01T00:00:00ZEffects of emigration; can it be made a means of relieving distress?Jordan, Thomashttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/91052010-06-03T15:55:51Z1856-01-01T00:00:00ZEffects of emigration; can it be made a means of relieving distress?
Jordan, Thomas
Many, for instance, we all know, are now occasionally assisted in
our towns by benevolent individuals or associations. How much
more effective might not this relief be, if instead of being given in
small sums, it were bestowed at once and with the special view of
enabling its objects to take advantage of the offer of the Emigration
Commissioners. One case relieved in this manner would be equivalent
to several on any other principle. Mendicancy would not be encouraged.
The intending emigrant would be put into the way of
realising the glorious privilege of being independent; and, as we showed
before, his fellow-countrymen, though not relieved directly by the same
individual or association, would be so indirectly. In this manner
there could be a thorough investigation into the eligibility of each
person?an investigation much more efficient than can possibly be
made by the Emigration Commissioners, whose transactions must
necessarily be on a large scale.
Another object, too, could be accomplished by this plan, which the
Emigration Commissioners profess themselves unable at present to
effect. Their object, they say, is not to consider how distress may be
best relieved here, but how the most suitable persons for the colony
may be procured. But by the system of benevolence now suggested,
the other object also would be secured ? a proper selection would
be made for the colony, at the same time that pauperism would
effectually be removed.
Read May 19th, 1856
1856-01-01T00:00:00ZObservations on the present export of silver to the EastWalsh, Richard Husseyhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/91042010-06-03T15:55:51Z1856-01-01T00:00:00ZObservations on the present export of silver to the East
Walsh, Richard Hussey
Unlike the old movement of silver to the East, the present cannot
be permanent. The former was rarely more than might be accounted
for as the distribution of that metal to some of its principal customers?
the nations of the East?according as fresh supplies were
raised in the silver producing countries. But now silver is going
faster to the East than it is produced throughout the entire world,
and therefore the process cannot go on long, but must come to an
end as soon as the redistribution of the old stock has been effected.
Read before the Statistical Section of the British Association, Cheltenham,
August 12th, 1856
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